Topic: Hollywood

PETALING JAYA: A design student’s idea of a Hollywood-style sign to boost tourism in Penang may prove to be short-lived, now that an activist has raised the alarm over potential environmental damage...

PETALING JAYA: Penang has expressed interest in a Hollywood-style sign for the state after a picture by an amateur photographer went viral last week, attracting both praise and criticism from internet...

Back in 2011, Chinese online streaming site iQiyi paid for the rights to Transformers: Dark of the Moon, betting that the Michael Bay-directed Hollywood blockbuster would help jumpstart its efforts to...

HOLLYWOOD: With the final season of Game of Thrones delighting worldwide audiences, show runners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have revealed they are moving on to tell a three part Star Wars saga in j...

KUALA LUMPUR (REUTERS) - Oscar-winning actor George Clooney was criticised by LGBT+ activists on Tuesday (May 14) after he called a boycott of luxury hotels owned by Brunei a "warning shot" to Indones...

PUTRAJAYA, May 14 — Deputy foreign minister Datuk Marzuki Yahya today sought to correct the viewpoints of popular Hollywood actor George Clooney, pointing out that Malaysia does not kill, and will n...

KUALA LUMPUR (May 14): Oscar-winning actor George Clooney was criticised by LGBT+ activists on Tuesday after he called a boycott of luxury hotels owned by Brunei a "warning shot" to Indonesia and Mala...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters): Oscar-winning actor George Clooney was criticised by LGBT and activists on Tuesday (May 14) after he called a boycott of luxury hotels owned by Brunei and a sent "warning shot" to Indonesia and Malaysia should they consider introducing similar anti-gay laws.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 14 ― The hotels boycott that forced the Sultan of Brunei to back down from imposing the death penalty for homosexuality will serve as warning for other countries considering this, ...

KUALA LUMPUR (May 7): The US government has returned and will be returning substantial monies to Malaysia, representing the first instalment of funds recovered from asset seizures related to 1Malaysia...

The US is to return close to $200m (£152.4m) to Malaysia in funds recovered from asset seizures tied to scandal-hit state fund 1MDB. US authorities have so far transferred $57m tied to a Hollywood fi...

KUALA LUMPUR (May 7): The U.S. government has begun returning to Malaysia some $200 million recovered from asset seizures linked to state fund 1MDB, with about a quarter of the amount already repatri...

KUALA LUMPUR, May 7 — US authorities have transferred US$57 million (RM236 million) to Malaysia from funds it received from Red Granite Pictures that is linked to Riza Aziz, Attorney General Tommy T...

SINGAPORE: US authorities will this month return US$200 million (RM829 million) stolen from 1MDB, including money from a stake in a luxury New York hotel and from a Hollywood movie producer, two sourc...

NEW YORK, May 3 — The celebrity-backed vegan burger start-up Beyond Meat made a sizzling Wall Street debut yesterday, more than doubling its share price, as investors show an appetite for the growin...

SINGAPORE (Reuters): US authorities will this month return US$200mil (RM828mil) stolen from Malaysia’s state fund 1MDB, including money from a stake in a luxury New York hotel and from a Hollywood movie producer, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.

SINGAPORE (REUTERS) - US authorities will this month return US$200 million stolen from Malaysia's state fund 1MDB, including money from a stake in a luxury New York hotel and from a Hollywood movie pr...

Product placement in Hollywood blockbusters gets you eyeballs, and the latest carmaker to leverage on this is Lexus in the forthcoming instalment of Men in Black, but something caught our eye in the g...

Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame, poised to be the hugest movie opening in history, has hit piracy networks – two days before its US premiere – with a copy evidently recorded in a Chinese movie theatre now circulating online, according to a published report.

Award-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald has directed many movies, including the drama The Last King of Scotland and thriller State of Play. But last year was the first time Macdonald worked with a script written by a machine.

As pressure mounts on social media companies over child grooming and sex abuse imagery, a US-based not-for-profit set up by Hollywood actors Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore tackling the problem has received backing from eBay billionaire Jeff Skoll.

KUCHING (Bernama): The Asean International Film Festival and Awards (AIFFA) is just 17 days away and it's getting more exciting as Hollywood star Steven Seagal will be joining the event here as a special guest.

The fuzzy 'Despicable Me' creatures are to be given a home of their own at the Universal Studios theme park in Singapore, where Mario and his console friends will also set up within a Super Nintendo World.

Oscar-winning actor George Clooney has called for a boycott of luxury hotels, including the Beverly Hills Hotel, owned by Brunei because of its plans to impose the death penalty for people having gay ...

Many Hollywood heavyweights flocked to Apple’s Cupertino, California headquarters to help reveal the tech giant’s revamped steaming service Apple TV+ on March 25 – but one such legend was so polarising he became a national trending topic on Twitter for simply showing his face.

MUMBAI, March 27 — Indian tax authorities raised about US$8 million (RM32.5 million) in an auction yesterday of rare oil paintings that were once part of fugitive billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi's c...

Apple Inc brought in Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Jennifer Aniston and Jason Momoa to talk up its new television streaming service at a Hollywood-style event on March 25 marked by standing ovations, hugs and soaring rhetoric.

MUMBAI, March 26 — Indian tax authorities are hoping for a windfall with the auction today of rare oil paintings that were once part of fugitive billionaire jeweler Nirav Modi's collection and have ...

CUPERTINO, March 26 — With Hollywood stars galore, Apple unveiled its streaming video plans yesterday along with news and game subscription offerings as part of an effort to shift its focus to digit...

KUALA LUMPUR: A pro-Palestine peace activist has urged Malaysia to stand firm on its stance on Israel after a prominent actor cut business ties with one of Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s sons over the prime ...

(March 21): A fugitive Malaysian financier at the heart of the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal is quietly building up an army of foreign agents and firms amid mounting investigations into his financi...

PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The second son of Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has confirmed that Hollywood actor Benedict Cumberbatch has severed business ties with him bec...

Netflix Inc, the world's dominant streaming service, will not make its TV shows and movies available through Apple Inc's upcoming video offering, Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings said on March 18.

Apple Inc is targeting prestigious awards for an upcoming slate of original movies and TV shows, demonstrating grand Hollywood ambitions for a video streaming service that will compete with Netflix Inc, Amazon.com Inc and established studios, according to people familiar with the plans.

Apple Inc, after teasing investors for months about its ambitions to become a services company, is getting ready to showcase plans for new video and news products. All it needs now is for Hollywood to sign up.

Hollywood actresses Lori Loughlin (above) and Felicity Huffman were among 50 people charged by US federal prosecutors on Tuesday in a US$25 million scheme to help wealthy Americans cheat their childr...

Comment - By Wong Chun Wai
WHEN Petronas chief executive officer Tan Sri Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin (pic) was named as one of the 100 global Brand Guardians for 2019, almost all the media dutifully reported it but they were all published in the business section.

NEW YORK: The US Justice Department has expanded the scope of its civil forfeiture in the 1MDB bribery scandal, seeking US$38 million (RM155 million) in funds connected with luxury real estate and Hol...

FEBRUARY 23 ― The 2019 Oscars is just a few days away, and in a much welcome change from the previous Oscars, there doesn't seem to be any consensus at all between the preceding awards ceremonies in...